Dynamic IP address assignment

Jouni Malinen jkmaline
Fri Sep 19 19:28:00 PDT 2003


On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 07:45:22PM -0400, thomas chen wrote:

> i think you are refering to RFC3203

> basically this is a mechanism for DHCP daemon to issue a FORCE command
> to ask client to re-get the IP assignment, DNS etc

This should not be necessary with IEEE 802.1X/RADIUS IP assignment
because IEEE 802.1X authorization has to be completed before DHCP can be
used. Thus, the AP already knows the assigned IP address before needing
to reply to any DHCP requests. If RADIUS server decides to change the
assigned address during re-authentication, this might be more relevant,
but that does not sound like a common case.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA




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